Super Bowl XLVII

The NFL is all about making billions of dollars a year selling its brand of glitzy gladiatorial violence and power. The kind of violence and power Ray Rice showed. Not what Rice showed in a hotel elevator when he punched his wife's lights out and then dragged her out like a sack of potatoes. The video of the punch is sending spasms of anxiety through the NFL. I'm talking about the violence on the field, where the destruction of the human body is celebrated as virtue, so that millions of Americans can feel vicarious thrills as we finger our keyboards to play fantasy football. Unfortunately for the NFL, appeals to testosterone alone weren't enough. The boomers are...

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